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...Twiddle. The tributes, though, keep growing. Later this month, the L. & H. lore will be further enriched by the publication of The Films of Laurel and Hardy* by William Everson. Incisive, objective and generously illustrated, the book traces the development of the team from their first silent two-reeler, Putting Pants on Philip (1927)-a fast-paced trifle with elements of homosexual humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie...
Rich with insights into the clowns' techniques, Films will undoubtedly add new dimensions to the L. & H. legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell...
...poet identified with the San Francisco Renaissance headed by Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brother of Antoninus published poems for many years under the name William Everson until he became a lay brother in the Dominican Order eleven years ago. As all poetry should, Brother Antoninus' writings have had an organic development which reflects the parallel development of his personal life. While much of his earlier poetry did exhibit some orientation toward God, it largely dealt with his attempt to find meaning in life through sensuality. He explained the cause of a rather sudden shift in orientation: after...
...back as 1930, in the Cochrane decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana statute providing for distribution by the state of nonreligious textbooks to children in public and private schools alike. In 1947's Everson v. Board of Education-a judgment that Kennedy used heavily in his arguments-the court approved a New Jersey law permitting free bus service for parochial school children but laid down a stiff distinction between service to student and service to school...
...interpreting the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") to mean exclusion of direct aid to nonpublic schools. In the Everson case of 1947, the court upheld by 5 to 4 a New Jersey law authorizing free bus service for parochial schoolchildren. But this was interpreted as aid to children, not to schools...